In this tale of erotic love, the laughter hinted at in the title of the anthology is revealed to be rather wry, personal identity is shown to be ambiguous, and love often appears to be tainted by uncertainty.
In Love and Other Ghosts (2009), the poet's voice appears less critical of bad governance as is openly registered in his Blind Moon (2003).
In die argeologie van die kontemporêre verlede word nuwe betekenis aan alledaagse items geheg deur argeologiese metodes te gebruik om hulle te klassifiseer en analiseer. Journal of Literary Studies | The journal is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of literary theory, methodology, research, and related matters. Sadly, Hove passed away on the 12th of July, 2015 while on self-imposed exile in Norway. Revisiting Consciousness in Okri and Govender, Lookin Back: James Ogude in Conversation with Ben Okri: 26 April 2014, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Countering Mind-forg’d Manacles in Ben Okri’s, Dream as a Journey of Self-discovery in Ben Okri’s “Dreaming of Byzantium”, A Decolonial Reading of Ronnie Govender’s “Over My Dead Body”, Made in Cato Manor: Ronnie Govender and the Fight to Preserve a Personal/Public Space, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health. Joseph Conrad in the Popular Imaginary: The Case of Heart of Darkness. I firstly outline the present negative perceptions of the humanities and the factors that constrain their development in South Africa.
Its central theme evolves from Mandela’s portrayal as a prototype of the nefarious experiences of colonial bigotry under apartheid, a strategist in nation building and eventually providing archetypal leadership in the post-colonial period. Shipwreck narratives were a publisher's staple during the eighteenth century. The narrative tackles the challenges of single motherhood, career/celebrity experiences of a woman as well as HIV. Using Ricoeur's views on time, temporality, historicality and the representation of time as points of departure and referring to Jesse Matz's discussion of the postmodern time crisis, the so-called “era of the nanosecond”, the representation of time-related themes and the aesthetic rendering of threshold experiences in Anne Michaels's novel Fugitive Pieces are explored.
Browse the list of issues and latest articles from Journal of Literary Studies. One such film is Hotel Rwanda, based on the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Playing the Politics of Erasure: (Post)Colonial Film Images and Cultural Genocide in Zimbabwe. Perhaps the most recognisable thematic feature of Chinua Achebe's celebrated fictional and critical praxis is his keen interest in the social and political transformation of African societies following colonisation and independence. The aim of this article is to highlight cultural genocide and explore how this type of genocide was used in images in European colonial films to destroy or “erase” some important cultural and traditional activities of black people in Africa. This complex temporal tapestry unfolds while being sustained and contained by Serote's own temporal vision, which is always future-oriented; it is a vision of hope, of individual and communal renewal. Public attacks on the commemorative landscape voice resistance to official hegemonic narratives, constituting developing consideration of and diverse perspectives engaging with systems of power. The article navigates both normative and ideological values incorporated in the content through a verbal-visual functional analysis of the main social and political actors as well as institutional contexts represented in the film. Confronting the Horrors of Apartheid: The Case of the Documentary film Night’s Journey into Day: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation (2000). The article takes an African-centred approach in its examination of womens plight and strategies propagated by African women in pre- and post-independence Zimbabwe to create safe space and empower women with a view to building more stable families and sustainable social transformation for societys greater good.
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The objective is to make evident significant trajectories and changes in Achebe's portrayal of political leadership and history in his thematisation of postcolonial and post-independence nationalism.
To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. This article concerns the child-protagonist narrators, Suleiman and Nuri, of Hisham Matar's two novels In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance respectively. A persuasive counterpoint to contemporary right-wing rhetoric regarding the possibilities created by disaster, Buchan's narrative illustrates the complexities of accommodating difference, at the same time as it sets out – hesitantly – what a constructive response to violent upheaval might entail. This gave rise to new sites of speaking and literary narratives. This article is concerned with time and temporality in human experience as well as in narrative representation. An Absent Presence: Intertextual Appropriation in Michael K by Nthikeng Mohlele. Her fiction seeks to reconnect with a cultural heritage to re-establish a sense of home and belonging, a move that is both a return – in that Lazaroo situates her narratives in the Asian contexts of her birth in Singapore and her paternal connection with Malaysia – and an origin because it “begins” by “coming back” (Derrida 1994: 10). Journal of Literary Studies. Since they state that their commitment to their Islamic faith encompasses a critical interrogation of traditional and religious practices within their own societies, I will draw on the term dihliz, an Arabo-Persian term, (Moosa 2006:7) which suggests a liminal, threshold space. Through the documentary narrative, Night’s Journey into Day: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation (2000), this article seeks to explore the horrors of Apartheid and to discover its political and ideological contradictions.
Search in: Advanced search. Secondly, carnivalesque motifs (casinos, circuses, carnivals per se) have been a feature of 007 movies since their inception. This article concerns Buchan's response to the catastrophic interruption of his journey. Reflecting on the careers of three sons of this city, Zayn Adam (also Adams in some sources), Richard Jon Smith and Jonathan Butler, this article endorses what Martin Stokes has said about music, namely as “the means by which this [social] space can be transformed” (Stokes 1994: 4). During their periods of iddat, their seclusion enables the narrators to explore the prosaic and the sacred, the personal and the political from this space of dihliz, and also promotes a sensitive perception of their historical and personal contexts from multiple perspectives, thereby re-positioning and re-constructing their identities as Muslim women. Strindberg's Miss Julie has been adapted numerous times (apparently more than twenty times) and often through re-imagings of the original play's issues in regards of gender, power and social class. The purpose is to have a forum in which general doubts about the processes of publication in the journal, experiences and other issues derived from the publication of papers are resolved.
This Commission was tasked to bring to the surface the “buried” narratives that are constantly fighting to claim space in the history of South Africa. Within a history of the deployment of the term “canon”, the author of this article investigates the possibility of an extra-canonical literature and the role of heritage and the futuristic in literature through reweaving by appropriation.
For topics on particular articles, maintain the dialogue through the usual channels with your editor. Buchan contends with an experience that does not conform to his expectations, which presents an occasion for learning. The central argument of this interdisciplinary article is that the “glasnost” context of the last phase of the Apartheid regime (1990-1994) had a profound impact on the content and form of isiXhosa written poetry.
In 2009, Chenjerai Hove completed a collection of poems called Love and Other Ghosts (2009) which has remained unpublished to date. This article will argue that it is critical to study the nature and manifestations of cultural genocide, which is often relegated to the margins, as a way of understanding the genesis of this condition. Literator is an influential, frequently cited, peer reviewed and open access journal. The focus is directed at the representation of thresholds, threshold experiences, borders and boundaries in narrative texts, but where these concepts are more often than not analysed from a spatial perspective, the temporality of these forms of liminality is foregrounded here. Learning Hospitality: George Buchan's Narrative of the Loss of the Winterton (1820). The Eurasian writer, Simone Lazaroo, has lived most of her life in Australia. The journal is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of literary theory, methodology, research, and related matters. Versions and Subversions of Islamic Cultures in the Film The Stoning of Soraya M. The aim of this article is to explore the idea of versions and subversions of narrative constructions and reinterpretation of Islamness or Muslim cultures from an analysis of the film The Stoning of Soraya M. This will be done by focusing on the narratives authorised by men in comparison to those narratives of Islam created by women in the film.
Where the particular may be used to leverage far-reaching insights, going beyond a single poet's experience may also highlight some outcomes and insights of uprooting and displacement for members of an outsider and minority community. In most of the narratives on the genocide, the historicity of the carnage is explored by means of the stark images of human bestiality and the debility of the victims. The article demonstrates how changes in Achebe's narration of nation may represent ideological shifts and different “ways of telling”. The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe Note: The University of Adelaide Library eBooks @ Adelaide. Just as Lewis-Williams argues that the traditional archaeological focus on intellect, instrumental rationality and alert consciousness cannot do full justice to an understanding of important aspects of prehistoric human culture and behaviour, particularly their art, so this article purposes to show the importance of volition in this respect. In focusing on the 1968 NBC-TV Special, an important milestone in Elvis's career as a popular singer, this paper proposes to examine the production of the ‘68 Special against the backdrop of the tensions and the drama that led up to this signal moment in the history of American rock ‘n roll – a moment that would serve as a template for performing artists of the future. They appeared as pamphlets, chapbooks, broadsheets, and occasionally as more expensive book editions. Mohlele’s reader is left with the final image of his eponymous Michael K as a figure who, like his fictional precursor(s), resists appropriation, escapes from authority, and whose presence is paradoxically predicated on absence. Yet, women alone cannot usher in sustainable social transformation outside their existential and material conditions, begs the article.
Although, Hove's creative ouvre has received some important critical evaluation, most of these evaluations are on his novels.